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  1. AI Agents are Vulnerable to Radicalization

    Sep 29, 2026Ozgur Can Seckin, Shalmoli Ghosh, Alessandro Flammini +3Artificial Intelligence AgentsIdeology

    Observatory on Social Media, Indiana University Bloomington · Emerging Media Studies Division, College of Communication, Boston University

  2. The Unequal Influence of Bad Advice: Using Training Data Attribution to Modulate Emergent Misalignment

    Sep 29, 2026Gonçalo Paulo, Louis Jaburi, Nora Belrose +2Emergent MisalignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

    EleutherAI

  3. Speech Block Influence: Component-Specific Layer Scoring for Pruning Speech LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Siyu Yao, Du Q. Huynh, Lian Xu +1Speech Language ModelsSpeaker

    The University of Western Australia

  4. How Model Growth, Recursion, and Boundary Operators Influence Scaling Exponents

    Sep 16, 2026Zixi Chen, Akshay Vegesna, Samip Dahal +1Scaling LawsExponents

    New York University · Q Labs

  5. Weakening Neurons: An Input-Output Functionality in Transformers with Outsize Influence

    Sep 16, 2026Sebastian Gerstner, Hilal AlQuabeh, Kentaro Inui +1NeuronsTransformer Architectures

    LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning · MBZUAI · Tohoku University +1

  6. Data Attribution at Scale via Influence Matrix Estimation

    Sep 14, 2026Yuxi Chen, Hamza Golubovic, Han Tong +2Influence FunctionInfluence

    Carnegie Mellon University 1Department of Statistics & Data Science · Columbia University 2Department of Statistics · Columbia University 3Electrical Engineering Department +2

  7. Do Influence-Derived Data Perturbations Enable Machine Unlearning? A Controlled Study of Three Plausible Roles

    Sep 14, 2026Chenkai Wu, Chrispine Kambimbi, Qinyang Zeng +1Machine UnlearningDeletion

    Monash University · LibrAI · Tongji University +1

  8. InfluenceField: A Differentiable Field with Interventionally Identifiable Causal Structure for Multimodal World Modeling

    Sep 7, 2026Zihao Yang, Zijia Wang, Zhiqiu HuangLatent Feature InterventionsMultimodal Large Language Models

    Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford · Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

  9. From Citations to Contributions: LLM-Assisted Credit Scoring of Research Articles

    Sep 7, 2026Sana Ebrahimi, Suraj Shetiya, Abolfazl AsudehCitationsContributions

    University of Illinois Chicago · IIT Bombay

  10. FedRAW: Preserving Rare-Label Influence in Asynchronous Federated Learning

    Sep 7, 2026Prashant Bajpai, Divya Saxena, Philippe Lalanda +1Federated LearningParticipation

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India · Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

  11. Influence Is Not Authority: When Causal Guardrail Signals Make Legitimate Tool Use Look Like an Attack in Tool-Using LLM Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam +3Controlling Tool UseGuardrail

    Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA 79902 · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA 87801 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

  12. Measuring Task-Agnostic Training Data Influence Across Language Model Pretraining

    Aug 13, 2026Yuto Nishida, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yusuke Oda +6Large Language Model PretrainingTraining Data

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology · NII LLMC · Waseda University +3

  13. Dead text or binding clause? Measuring and restoring constraint influence in black-box LLM dialogues

    Aug 12, 2026Haoyuan ZhuMulti-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsInfluence

    Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Sheffield

  14. Accuracy and Order Sensitivity Diverge Under Label-Free Strategies

    Aug 12, 2026Karl Hanna, Chen FengMultiple-Choice QuestionsOrder Matters

    Queen’s University Belfast

  15. Do Influence Tactics Matter? Investigating Prompt Framing Effects in LLM Code Generation

    Aug 11, 2026Alex Deaconu, Anubhav Gupta, Manaal Basha +2Code GenerationTask Framing

    Alex Deaconu and Anubhav Gupta shared first authorship.

  16. IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale

    Aug 11, 2026Lukasz Olejnik, Wenchao Dong, Jonas R. Kunst +4Social InfluenceAi-Based Framework

    Department of War Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom · Independent researcher · Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany +4

  17. Rethinking Learning-Based Influence Maximization: Simple Neural Surrogates and Native Discrete Search

    Aug 9, 2026Yiqiao Liao, Parinaz NaghizadehInfluence FunctionGraph Representation Learning

    UC San Diego

  18. Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Can Be Unreliable in Implicit-Influence Settings

    Aug 5, 2026Agatha Duzan, Asa Cooper SticklandFrontier ModelsChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    EPFL · UK AI Security Institute

  19. Modeling Social Dynamics with an LLM-Enabled Agent Based Network-Dynamic (LAND) Model

    Aug 2, 2026Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. CarleySocial DynamicsNetwork Science

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  20. FADEx: Feature Attribution and Distortion-based Explanation of Dimensionality Reduction

    Jul 29, 2026Lucas Greff Meneses, Evandro S. Ortigossa, Claudio Silva +1Dimensionality ReductionFeature Importance

    University of São Paulo · Weizmann Institute of Science · New York University

  21. Modeling Stylistic Co-evolution in Symbolic Music Heritage Collections

    Jul 27, 2026Yulong He, Ivan Smirnov, Yanming LiSymbolic Music GenerationHarmonization

    St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia · ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia · St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia

  22. Directional Influence Function: Estimating Training Data Influence in Constrained Learning

    Jul 25, 2026Xin Wang, R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Xuegang +1Influence FunctionUncoupled Learning

    Jeff · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA · Department of Mathematics University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

  23. Efficient Learning of Truncated Boolean Product Distributions: Influence to the Rescue

    Jul 24, 2026Rohan Chauhan, Ioannis PanageasOptimal Sample ComplexitySpectral Norm

    University of California, Irvine

  24. A Conceptual Framework for Refining Influence Knowledge from Simulation Evidence in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jul 22, 2026Barbara da Silva Oliveira, Julien Deantoni, Nicolas FerryCyber-Physical SystemInfluence

    UniCA, Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS · Université Côte d’Azur, I3S/INRIA Kairos Sophia Antipolis, France · Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS, UniCA

  25. Selectivity Matters: Source Node Influence Pruning for Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation

    Jul 20, 2026Ridong Han, Yawen Shen, Zhongnian Li +3Domain AdaptationMultiple Centrality Measures

    School of Computer Science and Technology / School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Xuzhou 221116, China · Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Engineering Center for Intelligent Sensing and Emergency IoT in Underground Space, Xuzhou 221116, China +1

  26. Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching

    Jul 18, 2026Haoru Tan, Wang Wang, Sitong Wu +5Diffusion-Based Dataset DistillationDataset Distillation

    1HKU · 2CUHK · 3Stanford

  27. Manufactured Divisiveness: Decomposing the Hostile Content of Seven Social Media Influence Operations

    Jul 16, 2026Emilio FerraraHate SpeechSocial Influence

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science University of Southern California

  28. Influence Diagnostics in High-dimensional M-estimation: Precise Asymptotics

    Jul 10, 2026Hugo CuiInfluence FunctionHigh-Dimensional

    Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de mathématiques d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay, France

  29. Length Penalties Make Chain-of-Thought Less Monitorable

    Jul 8, 2026Bryce LittleChain-of-Thought ReasoningPenalties

  30. Influence of Radial Basis Activation Functions on Intelligent Controller for Robotic Manipulators

    Jul 2, 2026Kimmo Paldanius, Gabriel Da Silva Lima, Wallace Moreira BessaRadial Basis FunctionRobotic Manipulator

    Smart Systems Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Turku, 20520, Finland.

  31. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in StarCraft Micromanagement with Influence Maps and Cluster-based Scripts

    Jun 29, 2026Chunhui Bai, Changhe Li, Dequan Li +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning Baseline

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China · State Key Laboratory of Digital Intelligent Technology for Unmanned Coal Mining, Anhui University of Science & Technology, Huainan 232001, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University of Science & Technology, Hefei 231131, China +1

  32. IHDec: Divergence-Steered Contrastive Decoding for Securing Multi-Turn Instruction Hierarchies

    Jun 29, 2026Nicole Geumheon Liu, Haeun Jang, Yonghyun Jun +1Contrastive DecodingInstruction-Tuned Models

    Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

  33. Cognitive World Models for Process-Level Social Influence Evaluation

    Jun 28, 2026Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Han Wang +4Social InfluenceCognitive Science

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

  34. Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution: Tracing Training Influence to Learned Behavioral Policies

    Jun 28, 2026Reza Habibi, Darian Lee, Magy Seif El-NasrMechanistic InterpretabilityBehavioral Foundation Models

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  35. Tracing Target Answers in Poisoned Retrieval Corpora via Token Influence Attribution

    Jun 24, 2026Yan-Lun Chen, Pin-Yu Chen, Chia-Mu Yu +3PoisoningAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · IBM Research · Hon Hai Research Institute

  36. Quantifying the Agreement Between Data-Influence and Data-Similarity to Understand LLM Behavior

    Jun 22, 2026Christopher J. Anders, Henrique Da Silva Gameiro, Nico Daheim +1InfluenceSimilarity and Metrics

    RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan · Section of Computer Science, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland · Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab),2026 Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt +2

  37. Warning labels shift perceptions of sycophantic AI, but not its influence

    Jun 19, 2026Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee +4SycophancyInfluence

    University of Oxford. · 2Stanford University. · 3Microsoft. +1

  38. Influcoder: Distilling Decoders' Gradient Influence Rankings into an Encoder for Data Attribution

    Jun 11, 2026Dimitri Kachler, Damien Sileo, Pascal DenisInfluence FunctionInfluence

    Centre Inria de l’Université de Lille, CRIStAL, Université de Lille

  39. Graph Reduction in Multirelational Networks: A Spreading-Oriented Reduction Benchmark

    Jun 10, 2026Mateusz Stolarski, Michał Czuba, Piotr Bielak +1Network ScienceInfluence

    Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

  40. Towards Graph Foundation Models for Dynamics in Complex Networked Systems: Lessons from Super-Spreader Identification in Multilayer Networks

    Jun 6, 2026Michał Czuba, Mateusz Stolarski, Adam Piróg +2Graph Foundation ModelTransductive Learning

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland · Semantics, Warsaw, Poland

  41. Finding Most Influential Sets

    Jun 4, 2026Lucas D. Konrad, Nikolas KuschnigInfluence FunctionCross Validation

    Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria · Monash University, Australia

  42. Trust, but Don't Verify: Epistemic Blind Spots in LLM Source Evaluation

    Jun 3, 2026Rohan N. Pradhan, Steve GoleyLarge Language Model ReliabilityEpistemic Asymmetry

    Amazon

  43. Covert Influence Between Language Models

    Jun 2, 2026Avidan Shah, Jay Chooi, Jinghua Ou +1InfluenceModel Activations

    MATS · New York University · 1MATS 2New York University +5

  44. On the Persistent Effects of Lexicality in Large Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Hammad Rizwan, Muhammad Umair Haider, Nishant Subramani +3Large Language Models FailLinguistics

    Dalhousie University Halifax, NS · University of Kentucky Lexington, KY · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

  45. Function-Valued Causal Influence in Nonlinear Time Series

    May 26, 2026Valentina V. Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Michael CoppedgeCausalInfluence

    Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. · Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

  46. RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

    May 25, 2026Mingchen Li, Hansi Zeng, Zhuo Qian +3Credit AssignmentGroup-Based Reinforcement Learning

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst · Texas Tech University · University of Connecticut

  47. Multi-Agent Systems are Mixtures of Experts: Who Becomes an Influencer?

    May 25, 2026Franka Bause, Jonas Niederle, Martin Pawelczyk +1Social InfluenceInfluence

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany · Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

  48. PRISM: Preference-Aware Influence Function Based Data Selection Method for Efficient Fine-Tuning

    May 20, 2026Qihao Lin, Guanxu Chen, Dongrui Liu +1Alignment-Aware SelectionModel Fine-Tuning

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  49. Causal Unlearning in Collaborative Optimization: Exact and Approximate Influence Reversal under Adversarial Contributions

    May 19, 2026Ali Mahdavi, Azadeh Zamanifar, Amirfarhad Farhadi +1Federated LearningDeletion

    Department of Computer Engineering SRC, Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran · School of Computer Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology Tehran, Iran · Meta CA, USA

  50. Generative AI Advertising as a Problem of Trustworthy Commercial Intervention

    May 18, 2026Jingyi Qiu, Qiaozhu MeiAdsTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    School of Information University of Michigan

  51. Zero-Shot Faithful Textual Explanations via Directional-Derivative Influence on Predictions

    May 16, 2026Toshinori Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko KawamotoExplainabilityExplainable AI Methods

    Chiba University · National Institute of Informatics

  52. A Unified Perturbation Framework for Analyzing Leaderboard Stability and Manipulation

    May 15, 2026Hosna Oyarhoseini, Jimmy Lin, Amir-Hossein KarimiLeaderboardInfluence

    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

  53. Interaction-Aware Influence Functions for Group Attribution

    May 15, 2026Jaeseung Heo, Kyeongheung Yun, Youngbin Choi +3Influence FunctionInfluence

    GSAI, POSTECH · CSE, POSTECH

  54. Extending Kernel Trick to Influence Functions

    May 11, 2026Zhenhuan Sun, Shahrokh ValaeeInfluence FunctionInfluence

    University of Toronto

  55. Indian Wedding System Optimization (IWSO): A Novel Socially Inspired Metaheuristic with Operational Design and Analysis

    May 5, 2026Deepika Saxena, Kishu Gupta, Jitendra Kumar +5Particle Swarm OptimizationMetaheuristics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan · Department of Computer Science, the VIZJA University, Warsaw, 01-043, Poland · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan +7

  56. Revealing graph bandits for maximizing local influence

    May 1, 2026Alexandra Carpentier, Michal ValkoBanditsInfluence

    Universität Potsdam · SequeL team, Inria Lille - Nord Europe

  57. To Build or Not to Build? Factors that Lead to Non-Development or Abandonment of AI Systems

    Apr 30, 2026Shreya Chappidi, Jatinder SinghArtificial Intelligence SystemsSoftware Engineering

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States · Research Centre Trust, UA Ruhr, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  58. Enhancing Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Hypergraph-Modeled Influence Maximization

    Apr 17, 2026Qianshi Wang, Xilong Qu, Wenbin Pei +2HypergraphsNetwork Science

    International School of Information Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 237016, China +1

  59. Embryonic Exposure to VPA Influences Chick Vocalisations: A Computational Study

    Jan 18, 2026Antonella M. C. Torrisi, Inês Nolasco, Paola Sgadò +2Animal VocalizationsDevelopmental Trajectories

    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK · Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy · School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

  60. Individualized Algorithmic Advice as a Strategic Signal on Competitive Markets

    Nov 12, 2025Tobias R. Rebholz, Maxwell Uphoff, Christian H. R. Bernges +1CollusionMatching Markets

    Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen · Fuqua School of Business, Duke University · Department of Economics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities